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PKG-SCRIPT(5) FreeBSD File Formats Manual PKG-SCRIPT(5)

shell scripts
Shell scripts that are run by pkg(8)

pkg(8) run scripts at given phases of the process it is running

The phases are the following:

:
run before installing the files on the system.
:
run after installing the files on the system.
:
run before removing the files on the system.
:
run after removing the files on the system.

In the particular case of an upgrade the scripts are run in the following order:

  1. new pre-install
  2. old pre-deinstall
  3. replace binaries
  4. new post-install

The following environment variable are exported to be used by the script
Represents the name of the package.
PREFIX defined within the package at build time.
represents the root directory where the package will be installed as specified by the -r arguments passed to pkg(8).
Number of a file descriptor to be used to be able to send messages to the user that will be shown at the end of the pkg(8) process.
Variable existing when the scripts is run in the context of an upgrade of the package

pkg_create(3), pkg_printf(3), pkg_repos(3), pkg-keywords(5), pkg-lua-script(5), pkg-repository(5), pkg-triggers(5), pkg.conf(5), pkg(8), pkg-add(8), pkg-alias(8), pkg-annotate(8), pkg-audit(8), pkg-autoremove(8), pkg-backup(8), pkg-check(8), pkg-clean(8), pkg-config(8), pkg-create(8), pkg-delete(8), pkg-fetch(8), pkg-info(8), pkg-install(8), pkg-lock(8), pkg-query(8), pkg-register(8), pkg-repo(8), pkg-rquery(8), pkg-search(8), pkg-set(8), pkg-shell(8), pkg-shlib(8), pkg-ssh(8), pkg-stats(8), pkg-triggers(8), pkg-update(8), pkg-updating(8), pkg-upgrade(8), pkg-version(8), pkg-which(8)
March 26, 2021 FreeBSD 13.1-RELEASE

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